New York Magazine

The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.

Foreign Interests: Narges Bajoghli • Hard Feelings The Iranian diaspora fractures in real time, in DMs and the silence of blocked numbers.

153 MINUTES WITH … Ibram X. Kendi • The anti-racism historian was lionized and excoriated after shooting to fame in 2020. His new book should be judged on its own terms.

Power: Reeves Wiedeman • One Nepo to Rule Them All David Ellison won the Hollywood crown. Now what?

THE GRANDE DAME OF THE EPSTEIN FILES • Peggy Siegal, once the most powerful publicist in New York, defends herself.

What Do You Do and What Do You Make? • 60 New Yorkers on what they brought in last year.

Laid-off lawyers, history Ph.D.’s, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re cheaply teaching AI how to do their old jobs. If You’re Still Employed, You Might Be Next

259 THINGS NEW YORKERS SHOULD KNOW

How to CELEBRATE THE GOOD STUFF (FROM A 9-YEAR-OLD’S BIRTHDAY TO AN OUTDOOR WEDDING.)

How to RAISE a CITY KID (AND RESIST THE SUBURBS.)

How to LEARN SOMETHING NEW (WHETHER YOU WANT TO FLY-FISH OR FELT A FEDORA.)

How to LOOK GOOD (FROM THE TOP OF YOUR WIND-TUNNELED HAIR TO THE TIPS OF YOUR STREET FEET.

... AND HOW TO STAY FIT • BECAUSE WALKING EVERYWHERE ONLY GETS YOU SO FAR.

How to Have A PET in an APARTMENT (AND ON THE SIDEWALK TOO.)

HOW TO SEE LIVE MUSIC ( AND STAY OUT VERY, VERY LATE.)

...AND HOW TO DEAL WITH DEATH OF A LOVED ONE (AND SOMEDAY YOURSELF).

Wrestling Speed Dating • Gen-Z singles threw on headgear and wrestled their Valentine’s Day dates in minutelong matches at an event hosted by social club Grownkid in Greenpoint.

The Family That Wallpapers Together • Rumaan Alam and David Land, with their two sons, downsized to a three-bedroom in Fort Greene and then colormaxxed everything.

Mob Mentality • Golden Steer celebrates Sin City’s seedy history and reinforces its reputation for so-so food.

The One to Watch • Ashley Padilla has become SNL’s breakout star by playing women who hurl themselves over the edge of a nervous-breakdown cliff.

Kelly Bundy and Me • I never saw the skinny girl everyone else did on TV. I only ever saw something else. By Christina Applegate

Bridgerton Needed Her • A new lead brought the hit Regency-romance series the perspective it’s been missing.

Mitski Keeps Her Spiciest Music Criticism Private But she’ll talk about her Netherlands sauna trauma.

CRITICS • Bilge Ebiri on Scream 7 … Sara Holdren on Mother Russia … Emma Alpern on Andrew Martin’s Down Time.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Niche Publications

Helping to Unravel Obesity Stigma, One Thread at a Time • An innovative campaign weaves science and storytelling to help reframe obesity as a chronic disease.

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.